Country singer Adam Craig describes the scene at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas where he and his band performed before the mass shooting when he arrives home at Nashville International Airport.
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Sarah Duchesneau of Spring Hill, Tenn., recounts her experience at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas during a mass shooting as she arrives at the Nashville International Airport.
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Survivors from Sunday's mass shooting in Las Vegas returned to Nashville on Monday. Two women who were there tried hiding under guitar cases when gunfire rang out Sunday, then ran for cover.
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Among the victims of the mass shooting in Las Vegas is Carrie Barnette, a 34-year-old from Southern California.

"I knew she was there, we have been up all night awaiting news. We knew she had been shot. This morning a friend with her confirmed she is gone," her cousin Janice Chambers told The Arizona Republic.

Chambers said Barnette's mother told her that her body was not yet recovered.

"She said there are bodies stacked everywhere. Not any real details as to more, other than she was up front close to stage. She was shot to the left side of her chest and a friend with her was there at her side when she passed," she said.

'Always smiling, happy and upbeat'

Barnette bought a home in Riverside last year and was an employee at Disneyland in Anaheim, Chambers said.

Multiple people posted online that Barnette worked at Pacific Wharf Café, a waterfront restaurant in the Disneyland companion park California Adventure.

She was "the life of the party," Chambers said.

"Always smiling, happy and upbeat. She spent many recent years caring for my aunt and uncle until they passed. She was definitely grandpa's girl. She told me he loved hummingbirds and every time she saw one she'd say 'Grandpa's here.' She was also a huge animal lover."

'She was a beautiful soul'

Rachel Steiman said she and Barnette have been best friends for years and that she "is like a sister to me.

"My whole world is devastated. I don't know how I'm going to get through life without her," Steiman said.

"It's just so wrong. I will never understand why people in this world can do such things."

A Facebook page for the Class of 2001 from Pacifica High School in Garden Grove, California, posted that the group was "saddened to hear the news."

More than a dozen people posted on Barnette's Facebook page asking if she was safe before someone posted that she had not made it.

"We are in shock and devastated," Chambers said. "She was a beautiful soul.

"She lived her life to the fullest, adored her family niece and new nephew. She was a beauty inside and out, loved life and making others smile. She was very adventurous, loved to travel. Heaven gained a beautiful angel."

People bring food and supplies for blood donors that were waiting to give blood at the Healthy Living Institute at the University Medical Center after the Las Vegas shooting, October 2, 2017.
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